Madonna doesn’t care what you/anyone thinks of how she dresses and presents herself. I say good for her not being afraid/ashamed/embarrassed to be who she darn well wants to be. Being in her 50′s is not going to prevent her from having a great time. I would love to wear my hair long and gorgeous and dress up like Daenerys Targaryen.. awesome!!…then hit a party. You have one life here on earth – what a waste of time saying someone is pathetic and tragic, trying to pass for a 26 year old. Good grief – get a life! You are the ones who appear pathetic.

Saw that! Shit! I had no idea she was troubled. She always seems happy. Goes to show how some people hide their pain.

Does anyone know if she struggled with mental illness or addiction? Is there anything that would have been a warning that this could happen? I don’t know much about her except that she is a designer and has been dating Mick Jagger for quite sometime…

Pass for a 26 year old? What 26 year old? In the books, Dany births her dragons at about the age of 13 or 14. Why can’t a 55 year old dress up for Purim? People much older do. Is there an age at which we are supposed to stop having fun?

Currently waiting for Madonna to accept the fact that she’s 55 years old. Any day now…

A few years ago when Madonna performed at the Super Bowl, when I asked my friend what she thought of Madonna still making music and still trying to wear cute clothes in her 50′s, my friend just casually replied, “Madonna needs to just hang it up already.”

Well… Children dress up for Purim, in very colorful costumes in fact. I’ve never known an adult who dressed up for it and that Madonna not only seems to have appropriated it as a “Jewish Halloween” but also didn’t even at the very least respect the generally exuberant use of color as an expression of happiness (over the salvation of Jews in Persia) in favor of looking like, well, Goth Madonna, is just another notch in her “ugh” belt.

Perhaps it’s different for different communities as I’ve always seen adults dress up right along the kids. I’ve dressed up too.

Although, even when adults DO dress up it’s not sexy and Daenerys is most definitely very sexy. Remember most Purim parties are held in the synagogue and most synagogues are just as conservative as a lot of churches…

I like her costume — it’s just more Halloween appropriate than it’s Purim appropriate.

@LadySlippers, agreed. If you’re going to dress up as an adult, don’t go this route. The Purim parties I have attended have always been in shuls and I can’t imagine the reaction if anyone, adult or child, walked in wearing this getup :/

@Lady, omg, I dated a guy whose father was a rather well-known mohel/cantor (he snips, he sings!) and me having been born and raised Catholic was enough to give him the willies. If I’d shown up in costume at the shul on Purim, I’m sure that would have solidified his view of me as the biggest living source of evil his son would ever know

Ah, Madonna. I never liked her at all. Now I just feel sorry for her. All her money can’t make her 25, or even 45, again. Pity she can’t accept her age and just enjoy each stage of life as it comes.

On another note, I got a call from the Kaballah center in Florida a few months ago! They are trying to get their holy book into as many homes and institutions as possible because just having it around will make your life better. They offered to send me one for free, so I figured why not? Might be interesting. I had them send it to my office, not my home.

Anyway, it showed up the other day. It’s in Aramaic, so I guess I’ll have to hope the blessings and good fortune happen, since I can’t actually read it.

It’s not ageism. I doubt if anyone here has a problem with people of any age. It’s when one so is so obviously desperate to deny their own age that it raises eyebrows. It is interesting to see someone who seems to have everything-money, fame, success, some say talent (I don’t but that’s not the point), healthy children, etc, but is so obviously fixated on the fact that like everyone else, she is aging. Instead of enjoying the fruits of her labors she is looking for a magic potion (or surgical procedure) to try to stave off the inevitable and she is getting poor results. That’s what is fascinating to people. It’s not ageism…it’s the sideshow that she’s turned herself into.